Environmentalism: A Global HistoryA new entry in the Longman World History Series, Environmentalism: A Global History is perfect for professors who want to assign short topical paperbacks which explore global issues and movements in their world history classes. This volume will fit into the second half of World History courses which typically cover the period from 1500 to the present century.
Environmentalism: A Global History is the first genuinely global history of environmentalism. Written by one of the foremost thinkers on ecological issues relating to South Africa, Guha has become one of the more provocative and perceptive commentators on environmentalism in its cross-cultural and global dimensions. Students will find this new text to be a lively and engaging study of ideas and debates that are central to our lives in the twentieth-first century. |
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Contents
GOING GREEN | 7 |
THE IDEOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC CONSERVATION | 25 |
THE GROWTH OF THE WILDERNESS IDEA | 44 |
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| Title | Environmentalism: A Global History Longman world history series, ISSN 1933-544X World History Series |
| Author | Ramachandra Guha |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Longman, 2000 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2008 |
| ISBN | 0321011694, 9780321011695 |
| Length | 161 pages |
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